The Villa Noailles is dedicating a historical exhibition to this pioneer of textile design between the wars. A look back at some unique and unjustly forgotten pieces.
Hélène Henry (1891-1965), fabric sample with the "Écailles" motif, 1924, cotton and viscose, 1930s weave.
© Photograph by Studio Pierre Antoine, commissioned for the Villa Noailles, 2021 Galerie Michel Giraud
She turns up everywhere in photographs of the time: at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1926, where Pierre Chareau used her "La Mosaïque" motif as the sole backdrop for his "fireside"; at Robert Mallet-Stevens' home in 1927, where the solid armchairs in the imposing hallway sported her tartan fabrics; in the Parisian dining room of the publisher Robert Draeger in 1928, where Francis Jourdain upholstered a wall panel with her angular, syncopated motif "Les Clous"; in the beautiful Parisian apartment Djo-Bourgeois created for one Mr. Vermus, in 1930, where her vertical "Rectangles" formed a pair of monumental curtain columns, and at the Salon d'Automne in 1933, where she displayed her fabrics with austere extravagance…
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